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Our Mistionc To work together to reipoiibly grew our comma nityr, and to provide quality, cert-oliBcdwe, and efficient government services. CC Regular Session 7. 5. Meeting Date: 10/13/2015 By: Bruce Westby, Engineering/Public Works Information Title: Adopt Resolution #15-10-256 Approving Change Order #1 and Amended Assessment Agreement for Ridgepoint Development Improvements, Improvement Project #15-21 Purpose/Background: Purpose: The purpose of this case is to approve Change Order #1 and an amended Assessment Agreement for the Ridgepoint Development Improvements, Improvement Project #15-21. Background: Village Bank owns the real property upon which the Ridgepoint seven (7) unit single-family residential development is proposed to be constructed per the Assessment Agreement between Village Bank and the City of Ramsey as approved by the City Council on August 1 lth. Per the attached executed Assessment Agreement, the City of Ramsey was to construct the required stage 1 and stage 2 improvements for the Ridgepoint development and assess all costs back to Village Bank over a period of three (3) years by prorating the improvement costs across each of the seven residential properties based on property size. The Assessment Agreement incorporated a 10% contingency cost to help ensure the assessments would cover actual construction costs. Village Bank utilized the engineering consulting firm of Hakanson Anderson to complete the final design and prepare plans and specifications for bidding the proposed improvements. Upon bidding the plans, the lowest bid received was from Douglas -Kerr Underground in the amount of $544,925.55. On August 11th the City Council accepted bids and awarded a construction contract to Douglas -Kerr Underground. Construction began on August 28th starting with clearing and grubbing of trees and the removal of existing infrastructure including a portion of the Mississippi River Trail and the east end of Rivlyn Avenue, including the cul-de-sac and several driveway aprons. On September 3-d the contractor starting grading the site and discovered a large volume of undocumented fill containing various construction debris materials. Based on the holes dug on site, the area of the undocumented fill was estimated to be approximately 35,411 square feet at an average depth of 14 feet, which equates to a volume of 495,754 cubic feet, or 18,361 cubic yards (soils plus debris). At that time, work was stopped to allow the contractor to estimate costs for a couple of options. Option 1 included costs for the contractor to "walk away" from the project which includes all costs for work previously completed, for restoring all infrastructure that was removed, for removing all loose material from the surface of the site, for rough grading the site to allow it to be maintained, and for restoring turf. The contractor recently estimated their "walk away" costs to be about $196,000. After adding costs required for construction administration, inspection, staking and testing, the total estimated cost becomes about $220,000. It is important to note that these costs are only valid if the work is authorized this week. If not, the concrete costs will increase due to cold weather charges required to insulate the concrete upon construction to protect it from freezing.